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Tuvalu (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 08 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -8.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 178 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 178.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises nine coral atolls; original Melanesian inhabitants were invaded by Polynesians from Samoa 16th century; sighted by British John Byron 1764; part of Britain's Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony 1915; separated from Gilberts (now Kiribati) 1974; main languages are Tuvaluan and English. |
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| Tuvalu (preferred,C,V,O,English-P,U,N)
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............ | since 1976 |
| Tuvalu (Rundi)
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| Tuvalu (Somali)
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| Tuvalu (Tagalog)
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| Tuvalu (Maltese)
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| Tuvalu (Tuvaluan-P,U)
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| Tuvalu (Indonesian)
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| Tuvalu (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Tuvalu (Azerbaijani)
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| Tuvalu (Bambara)
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| Tuvalu (Croatian)
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| Tuvalu (Bosnian)
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| Tuvalu (Latin)
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| Tuvalu (Latvian)
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| Tuvalu (Lingala)
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| Tuvalu (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Tuvalu (Danish)
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| Tuvalu (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Tuvalu (Finnish)
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| Tuvalu (Swedish)
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| Tuvalu (Polish)
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| Tuvalu (Portuguese)
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| Tuvalu (Romanian)
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| Tuvalu (Slovak)
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| Tuvalu (Slovene)
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| Tuvalu (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Tuvalu (Catalan)
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| Tuvalu (Basque)
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| Tuvalu (Aragonese)
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| Tuvalu (Akan)
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| Tuvalu (German)
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| Tuvalu (Low German)
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| Tuvalu (Albanian)
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| Tuvalu (Breton)
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| Tuvalu (Cornish)
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| Tuvalu (Czech)
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| Tuvalu (Dutch)
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| Tuvalu (Afrikaans)
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| Tuvalu (French-P,U,N)
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| Tuvalu (Galician)
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| Tuvalu (Faroese)
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| Tuvalu (Italian)
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| Tuvalu (Lithuanian)
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| Tuvalu (Estonian)
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| Tuvalu (Greenlandic)
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| Tuvalu (Tok Pisin (Neomelanesian))
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| Tuvalu (Turkish)
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| Tuvalu (Occitan)
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| Tuvalu (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Tuvalu (Romansh)
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| Tuvalu (Kikuyu)
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| Tuvalu (Luba-Katanga)
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| Tuvalu (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Tuvalu (Norwegian)
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| Tuvalu (Northern Sami)
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| Tuvalu (Shona)
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| Tuvalu (Swahili (generic))
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| Tuvalu (Arpitan)
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| Tuvalu (Ido)
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| Tuvalu (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Тувалу (C,O,Tajik)
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| Тувалу (Bashkir)
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| Тувалу (Serbian)
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| Тувалу (Macedonian)
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| Тувалу (Lezgian)
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| Тувалу (Chechen)
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| Тувалу (Mongolian)
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| Тувалу (Kazakh)
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| Тувалу (Kyrgyz)
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| Тувалу (Bulgarian)
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| Тувалу (Russian-P,U)
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| Тувалу (Ukrainian)
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| Тувалу (Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| Тувалу (Yakut)
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| Тувалу (Russia Buriat)
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| Тувалу (Western Mari)
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| Тувалу (Belarusian)
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| 图瓦卢 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| ثوفا وً (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| TUV (C,O,ISO3L)
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| TV (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO798 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Tuvaluan (C,O,English,U,A)
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| טובאלו (C,U,Hebrew )
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| i-Tuvalu (C,U,Zulu)
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| Orílẹ́ède Tufalu (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Thuvalu (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Tʼoobááloo (C,U,Navajo)
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| Touvalou (C,U,Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Tovalò (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Tubalu (C,U,Hausa)
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| Tubalu (Central Bikol)
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| Tubaru (C,U,Nauruan)
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| Tubhalu (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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| Tufalu (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Tuvalo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Túvalú (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Tu-va-lu (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Tûvalû (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Tûvalû (Western Frisian)
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| Túválú (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Tüvalü (C,U,Sangho)
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| Tūvalu (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Tuvaluäns (C,U,Volapük)
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| Túvalúeyjar (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Tuvalu nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Tuvaru (C,U,Tahitian)
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| Tuwalu (C,U,Quechuan)
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| Tuwalu (Uyghur)
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| Tuwalu (German)
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| Tuwaluu (C,U,Fulah)
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| Tuwaluu (Pitcairn-Norfolk)
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| Twfalw (C,U,Welsh)
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| 圖瓦盧 (C,U,Chinese, Wu)
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| 圖瓦盧 (Chinese, Yue)
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| 圖瓦盧 (Chinese)
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| تووڤالوو (C,U,Kurdish)
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| تووڤالوو (Central Kurdish)
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| ٹووالو (C,U,Panjabi, Western)
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| ٹووالو (Urdu)
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| ਤੁਵਾਲੂ (C,U,Panjabi, Eastern)
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| टुवालु (C,U,Marathi)
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| टुवालु (Sanskrit)
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| टुवालु (Kashmiri)
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| تووالو (C,U,Pashto)
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| تووالو (Urdu)
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| تووالو (Persian-Farsi)
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| တူဗားလူနိုင်ငံ (C,U,Burmese)
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| ଟୁଭାଲୋ (C,U,Odia)
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| ตูวาลู (C,U,Thai)
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| ཏུ་ཝ་ལུ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| Տուվալու (C,U,Armenian)
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| துவாலு (C,U,Tamil)
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| ประเทศตูวาลู (C,U,Thai)
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| ტუვალუ (C,U,Mingrelian)
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| ტუვალუ (Georgian)
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| Թուվալու (C,U,Armenian)
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| توفالو (C,U,Arabic)
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| ツバル (C,U,Japanese)
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| ටුවාලු (C,U,Sinhala)
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| तुवालू (C,U,Marathi)
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| तुवालू (Hindi)
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| துவாலூ (C,U,Tamil)
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| Тувалмудин Орн (C,U,Kalmyk)
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| Τουβαλού (C,U,Greek)
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| توڤالو (C,U,Arabic, Egyptian)
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| ತುವಾಲು (C,U,Kannada)
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| ቱቫሉ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ቱቫሉ (Amharic)
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| ތުވާލޫ (C,U,Maldivian (Divehi))
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| টুভালু (C,U,Bengali)
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| টুভালু (Bishnupriya Manipuri)
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| 투발루 (C,U,Korean)
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| तुवालु (C,U,Hindi)
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| టువాలు (C,U,Telugu)
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| توالو (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| ཐུ་ཝ་ལུ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ටුවාලූ (C,U,Sinhala)
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| തുവാലു (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ಟುವಾಲು (C,U,Kannada)
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| तुभालु (C,U,Nepali)
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| તુવાલુ (C,U,Gujarati)
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| טובלו (C,U,Hebrew )
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| ଟୁଭାଲୁ (C,U,Odia)
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| Ellice Islands (H,V)
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| Lagoon Islands (H,V)
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence October 1, 1978 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| constitutional monarchy (C) |
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established 1978 |
| island nation (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| protectorate (H) |
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British, 1892-1915 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Funafuti .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Oceania, Tuvalu, Funafuti) [7002049] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1978 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 2000 |
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